Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1887-06-09

A request of the captain of the Ameri-
can schooner Henry Dennis TO be allowed
to procure ice at Halifax has been refused
by the Dominion customs officials.
A milk train going to New York City
on Mond,y night was thrown from the
track near Mount Kisco by running into
q team OF oxen, and IL cars were wrecked.
James SeGrle, well-known citizen of
Luzurne county, Pa, and during PIesi-
dent Lincoln's administrator postmaster
Of Pittston, died Tuesday ut tho age of
ca years.
Tho supreme court OF tho District of
Columbia Monday decided, in the test
cases of Stamford druggist and Cochran,
tobRcconisti thai the Sunday law of 1861
| is invalid.
The funeral OF TX Vice. President W. A.
| Wheeler took place Tuesday nj Malone,
/ New York. II was attended by many
prominent citizens, among them * Presi-
| dent Hayes.
A colored man who had attempted TO
assault the mother in. law of tho Sheriff
| of Monroe county, AK, was taken ftOIa
| the jail, at Clarendon, on Sunday night,
and lynchsd. He confessed his gnilt.
The storm at Obcrlin, Ohio, on Sunday,
carried away nearly all the town bridges,
| and the water flooded four of the streets
| to depth Of several feet About So
houses and the gas works were flooded.
News has been received in Quebec of q
severe earthquake recently felt in County
L'Islet. Pieces of rock 40 TO so feet
square were thrown from the mountains,
and some large forest trees were uprooted.
| A terrific thunder storm visited Oincin,
| natl on Sunday afternoon, and Il sabled
400 telephone instruments by melting The
wires Much debris was washed from
| the hillsidea into the highways. Cellars
in Newport were filled with water.
At Lebanon, Pa, Monday, the case
of William Showert, charged with the
murder Of his two grandchildren, was
called for trial, but, in Wow Of the pub-
lie excitement. it was, by agreement OF
all parties, postponed until September Sd.
Watkins and Steptoe. cnlored. charged
| with the murder of Lizzie Wilson, in
Roanoke, Va. three wears aRn, and who
have been tried four times, each trial re.
sailing in hung jury, the jury dividing
on the color line, were released from Gus
tody on nolle pros, ut Lynchburg
Monday.
At Erie, Penna. on Sunday, the coroner
was called to hold IN inquest on the body
of John Lyons, hged rs years. Lyon
lay in the middle of the room where h,
had died the day before of drunkenness
Near him lay his wife in drunken
stupor. In shed lay little four-year
old Rrandchild, dying from poison. I
had been sick for several days, and in it
extremity had eaten poisonous weeS
which grew near the shed. The grand
mother, finding 1t in commissions, gave
heavy dose of whisky. Death resulte,
while the ohild's mother lay in Jail ON
charge Of drunkenness.
The annual meeting of the Pepnsylva
mia Company operating lines west o
Pittsburg was held Tuesday in that city
The following directors were elected g
B.Roberts, H. H. Houston, Wistar Morris
Edmund Smith, II. d. Welsh, j. N. du
Barry, ]. P. Wetherill, A. j, Oassett, JOIN
p. Green, W. H. Barnes, Philadelphia; j
N. Mccullough, William Thaw, Thomai
d. Missler, PIttsburg. The annual repor
shows an increase in the freight business
of s, 661 ,034 tons, with revenue increas'
Of $3,026, 10000 passenger traffic in
creased SIC, 406, which represents an in
crease in revenue of $2S7, 07l.9S. Tn
total revenue and expenditures show
deficit In 1886 Of $200,674 agains
81, 094, gu in 1885.